Brandi Glanville Says She Has Multiple Diagnoses After Years-Long Health Battle: ‘I Want My Life Back’
Former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Brandi Glanville, 53, shared a major update this week, saying she has received multiple diagnoses and is now undergoing an intensive treatment regimen that could continue for months. Glanville also says she needs additional procedures, including surgery to remove a hard mass she has described as a “fungal ball” from her face.
“I’m finally ready to tell you what I’ve actually been fighting,” Glanville wrote in an Instagram post shared Sept. 8 as she began opening up about what she says doctors have found.
According to Glanville, she has been diagnosed with highly resistant ESBL Klebsiella and Enterobacter with biofilm, coccidioidomycosis, commonly known as Valley Fever,Demodex dermatitis and mononucleosis. The same diagnoses are also listed on a GoFundMe organized on her behalf by Gina Rodriguez.
Glanville has not publicly released medical records confirming the diagnoses, so the findings are based on what she and those speaking on her behalf have reported.
The reality star has also continued to describe something in her face that she previously referred to as a “parasite.” In recent videos, Glanville said the problem that was once concentrated in her face now appears to extend down her right arm. She has also shown followers a prominent hard area in her cheek, which she says needs to be removed.
The new revelations come just days after Glanville gave followers an unusually candid look at the treatment she is currently undergoing.
In videos posted Sept. 6 and 7, Glanville showed herself preparing medication through a PICC line and said she receives several IV infusions each day. One of the medications she identified was imipenem, an antibiotic used to treat serious bacterial infections. A nurse visits her home for part of the regimen, while Glanville said she has learned to administer some of the treatment herself.
Glanville said the entire process spans approximately 18 hours per day.
“I feel like death. I look like death,” she said while discussing the toll the treatment has taken on her.
She also said she has become extremely thin and is having difficulty eating. Because of the demanding schedule, Glanville said she now rarely leaves her home except to record her Brandi Glanville Unfiltered podcast.
Her newest update suggests that the intensive treatment will not be over anytime soon. Glanville says she is facing approximately four to six months of daily IV treatment and still needs several procedures. She says those include removing the hard mass from her face, taking out old dental metals and removing her breast implants.
In February, Inside Edition documented Glanville undergoing surgery after she said a sonogram revealed that one of her roughly 18-year-old implants had ruptured. Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr. Ariel Ourian removed the old implants and replaced them with new ones. A week after the procedure, Glanville said she was already feeling better.
At the time, Glanville believed the ruptured silicone implant and its effect on her lymph nodes could explain at least some of the health problems she had been experiencing. Her improvement did not last, however.
By June, Glanville said her facial symptoms had returned. She also revealed that doctors had found what she described as a benign tumor in one of the lymph nodes in her face. Now, only months after receiving replacement implants, Glanville says those implants also need to be removed as part of her current treatment plan.
Her health problems stretch back to 2023, when Glanville began experiencing severe swelling and other unusual symptoms. She initially wondered whether something she ate while filming The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip in Morocco could have been responsible. Over time, she began publicly describing the sensation of something moving beneath the skin of her face.
Glanville says finding answers has been enormously expensive.
She has previously said she visited 21 doctors and spent approximately $200,000 trying to determine what was wrong. Her latest treatment is reportedly costing another $3,300 to $6,000 per month even with insurance.
Rodriguez has now organized a GoFundMe with a $28,000 goal to help cover Glanville’s IV treatments, medications, specialist care, surgeries, dental treatment, insurance and living expenses while she is unable to work normally. The fundraiser says Glanville’s health has left her unable to maintain her usual workload as she focuses on treatment.
Glanville has also made it clear that she intends to continue documenting what happens next, including some of the more difficult moments she previously kept private.
“For the first time, I’m showing you what my life has really looked like behind closed doors,” she wrote while introducing the recent videos of her treatment.
Although Glanville believes she finally has a treatment plan, she has acknowledged that she still faces months of medical care and multiple procedures before she knows how much her health will improve.
“I want my health back,” Glanville wrote. “I want my life back.”
